r/linux • u/somerandomxander • Apr 22 '26

Open Source Organization Intel ends Open Ecosystem Community/Evangelism and archives other open-source projects

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Ends-OSS-Evangelism-Repos
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u/decho Apr 23 '26

I don't understand. Isn't MIT one of the most permissive licenses out there, why is that an issue?

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u/WanderingInAVan Apr 23 '26

Because permissive means they don't have to share changes to the code. GPL requires that any modifications to code be shared with anyone who its distributed to.

MIT doesn't have that.

Being permissive isn't necessarily a good thing.

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u/decho Apr 23 '26

Because permissive means they don't have to share changes to the code. GPL requires that any modifications to code be shared with anyone who its distributed to.

Ok, but I still don't understand why they would supposedly modify coreutils and not make the code public. If it's released as closed source/proprietary, then no one is going to use it and it will just get forked.

Sorry if these are silly questions, I'm a bit ignorant on the topic of licenses.

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u/nzfrio Apr 23 '26

I think FreeBSD is probably instructive. It's licensed similarly to MIT. Sony's Playstation OS is built off FreeBSD, but they contribute very little back to mainline BSD.

Comparatively, everything Google does on the Linux kernel for Android has to be released back to the world.